how many of you out there are acutally producing T4?
It's easy to say 'sell the extra' but your not priviy to the production lines of those 'unnamed closed corps', so it's impossible to say they if they have extra, or how many they have to stock to be extra.
Simply, PVP corps don't produce for the open market. If they have 'enough' T4 lasers, they shut down the line and start making something else, when you have enough of those, you start a new line.
These items are continually being lost to PVE and PVP, so there is never 'enough' or 'extra'.
Players in new pvp corps are just going to have to wait until the industrial corps have their production up, because we DO produce for the market.
How many non-corp sponsored players can afford to fit T4 for PVP roams anyway? Not many, and certainly not for long.
So, when we do start producing, its going to be the PVE's buying, and a small group of them too that are able to afford it. There are T4 medium lasers on the market now, if the demand was that high, they would be sold out. Reality is that after a few weeks of a new items reaching the market, the majority of those looking to buy it will, and the remaining stock will sit for weeks as ones and twos sell as new players earn NIC.
Members of those closed corps work hard to ensure they have a supply of items, mining, ratting, producing, they aren't getting anything for free. It's stupid to think they should just open thier storages and let goods flow into the open market, where players that havn't contributed anything get the advantage of their hard work.
Tl;DR - The T4 'public' market isn't very large. Sure players 'want' T4 but those able to repeatedly purchase T4 is very small. If T4 was more readily available, the PVE crowd would buy it once, then the market would slow to a trickle of 'oops' and a few bots a week getting to the new EP level.